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APPLICATION FILED MAR. 12, 1907.

952,074, Patented Mar. 15, 1910.

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JEFFREY 'I. FERRES, OF ANDERSON, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR TO J. W. SEFTONMANUFAC- TURING COMPANY, OF ANDERSON, INDIANA, A CORPORATION OF INDIANA.

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Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Ella-11?. 115, 191WApplication filed March 12, 1907. Serial No. 361,967.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it-known that I, JEFFREY T. FERREs, a citizen of the United States,residing at Anderson, Madison county, Indiana, have invented a certainnew and usefulBoard, of which the following is a specification.

My invention consists in the production,

as a new article of manufacture, of a board two of. such-plies with theresult that the:

board thus formed is not only materially strengthened and reinforced butis also made proof against rats, mice and the like so that the board canbe put to the same uses as wood in the manufacture of boxes. In thepresent instance the paper board employed is the well known double-facedcorrugated paper board and the wires, in single parallel strands, areinterposed between the corrugated paper and one of the facing strips.

In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 is a cross-section of my new boardtaken on the line 1-1 of'Fi'g. 2; Fig. 2 a plan View of the board withthe upper facing strip partly broken away to expose the wires andcorrugated paper below; and Fig. 3 an enlarged sectional view of aportion of the board taken at right angles to the section illustrated inFig. 1.

As above stated I employ, in the production of my new board, a paperboard composed of different plies or la ers and in the present instancesuch paper oard is of the type which is commonly known as doublefacedcorrugated paper board and for the sake of a clear and definitedescription of my invention I will describe the same 'in connection withthat type of paper board.

I the usual corrugate shed and which as shown are laid Referring to theembodiment of my invention' as illustrated in Figs. 1, 2 and 3 of thedrawings, the paper board employed is a double-faced corru ated boardcomprising stri A. which is arranged between twoparal el paper strips Band C which are known in the art as facing strips and which in practiceare secured to the corrugated strip by pasting or gluing at the crownsof the corrugations. In the production of my new board I interpose between one of these facing strips and the corrugated strip a series ofwires D which are 0 any suitable size or strength according'to the sizeand weight of the board dearallel to each, other and at right angles tot e lines of corrugations, In the present instance the wires are shownasinter osed between the'c'orrugated-strip and the acingstrip B laidadjacent either one of said facin strips.

By preference the wires are embe (led in the crowns of the corrugations,leaving the crowns and facing strip in contact. In the operation ofpasting or gluing the facing strips to the corrugated strip the wiresare t at the same time and in the same way secured both to theiradjacent facing strip and the corrugated strip. It will be understoodthat the wires may be laid the proper distance a art to obtain therequisite strength and to a so prevent rats, mice, etc., from eatingtheir way through the board.

My new board formed as above'described possesses great strength andrigidit and is comparatively light in weight. oreover, such board isproofagainst rats,mice and the like so that the same may beadvantageously employed in'the manufacture of shipping and packing boxesand cartons contaimng articles that would be attacked by such vermin.

Iclaim:

1. As a new article ofmanufacture, a board comprising two facingstrips,a corrugated strip therebetween, and wires interposed between thecorrugated stri andone' of the facing strips, saidwires eing laid Q mamalongitudinally of the board and at right material of the board, saidwires being arang es to the corrugations; substantially as ran edparallel to each other and at right 10 described. angles to thecorrugations; substantially as 2. As a new article of manufacture, adescribed.

5 board comprising two facing strips, a cor- JEFFREY T. FERRES.

rugated strip therebetween, and Wires inter- Witnesses: posed betweenthe corrugated strip and one D. H. Domsm, of the facing strips andembedded in the. E. R. HANKINS.-

